By Jennifer Ehrlich, The Christian Science
Monitor, 19 December 2003. After a report projecting
a majority nonnative population by 2017, Rotterdam voted
this month to limit poor newcomers. Concerns that the
growing immigrant population—which is mostly
Muslim—will dominate.

BBC News, 21 January 2004. The Netherlands' example as
a successful, tolerant, multi-cultural community has taken a
dent with the publication of a parliamentary report saying
Dutch society is becoming increasingly polarised, with huge
ethnic ghettos and subcultures tearing the country
apart.